Manutahi Museum. Taxidermy past and present.

It is the start of the Taranaki Garden Festivals this weekend.

We went to the Manutahi Museum of taxidermy past and present. Some animals were so lifelike they looked like they would fly or run away. Others were a work in progress with wires, pins and pegs on them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Museum stuffed full

The Manutahi Museum is run by taxidermist enthusiast John Ward.  What variety, from rampant polar bears to scorpions.


One is never "boared'

Not often you get time to study the colours of a regular peacock.

 This golden pheasant had lived in the wild one house away, and had passed away recently by bumping into the neighbour's window.  John was in the process of resurrecting it.  The colours were incredible, the maroon feathers looked like they had been placed over the tail feathers - nature is unusual.